Fern Mallis: ‘I Don’t Think We Need FNO This Week’

Fern Mallis is often credited for “making” New York Fashion Week, and she thinks it doesn’t need Fashion’s Night Out. At a Boom Boom Room party hosted by André Balazs last night, the fashion guru opined, “Fashion Week creates such a buzz and so much chaos that I don’t think we need FNO this week.” She’s not against the event — she just thinks it’s poorly timed. January or October would be better, she said, because “stores really need the business” then.